Last night, Pete North, a well-known political campaigner and veteran of the Brexit movement, was arrested by North Yorkshire Police, allegedly for posting on his Twitter account. A video released by Pete shows police arriving at his house around 9:30 p.m. On the video, an officer explained that he had ‘posted something on the internet’ which someone ‘didn’t appreciate’, that their ‘hate crime team’ had reviewed the post and as a result the police were arresting him on suspicion of ‘stirring up racial hatred’ under Section 19 of the Public Order Act.
Here is North Yorkshire Police's hate crime snatch squad taking me in for tweeting a "Fuck Hamas" meme. pic.twitter.com/V7adfBYCuM — Northern variant (@FUDdaily) September 26, 2025
Pete told me this morning me that he was shocked, believi